By Madan Kumar / The Times Of India
PATNA: The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) on Wednesday said it would expand its activities and organizational works in all 534 blocks of Bihar in next two years, and has also fixed a target of expansion of its ‘Shakha’ (place of daily morning class) in all 5,800 ‘mandals’ across the state by its centenary year in 2025.
“The expansion plan in Bihar will be executed as part of the target fixed for observing the Sangh’s centenary year in 2025 in a grand way,” the RSS Dakshin Bihar Prant’s Sanghchalak Rajkumar Sinha said here on Wednesday.
He said the RSS is completing 100 years of its formation in 2025 and the Sangh has planned to reach out to the country’s each ‘Basti’ (having population of 10,000 or more) in urban areas and each ‘mandal’ (a cluster of 8 to 10 villages) in rural areas by 2025.
“Currently, the RSS holds a total of 60,929 ‘Shakhas’ at 38,390 places across the country. Besides these, the Sangh also holds weekly get-together meetings at 20,681 locations and ‘Sangh Mandali’ at 159 places in the country,” Sinha said.
“In Bihar, the RSS currently holds 1,733 ‘Shakha’ at 1,198 places, weekly get-together meetings at 639 locations and Sangh Mandali at 159 locations across the state,” the Sangh’s Kshetra Prachar Pramukh (Bihar-Jharkhand) Rajesh Pandey said.
Pandey also said the RSS has identified 641 ‘Sewa Basti’ in Bihar where the Sangh’s volunteers provide services to the members of disadvantaged classes. Currently, the works of providing education and ‘Sanskar’ were being run in 80 Sewa Bastis in the state, Pandey said.
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